Snowfall Records and Contests

For Michigan Tech students, alumni, and friends the region’s prodigious snowfall is
a point of pride and a rite of passage. Every Husky has at least one great snow story,
from digging out the wrong car in the parking lot after a blizzard to somehow making
it to class during an epic whiteout.

The record-high seasonal total—a whopping 355.90 inches—came in the winter of 1978–79.
The least amount of snowfall, in the winter of 1930–31, is 81.30 inches.

Snowfall is measured near Houghton County Memorial Airport by Michigan Tech's Keweenaw Research Center. In the northernmost portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenaw County Road Commission
measures the snow near Delaware, where snowfall amounts are typically greater than
those recorded in Houghton County.